Short Course In Digital Photography, 2/E

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The London, Upton, Stone series has helped over 1,000,000 photography students capture their potential.

After a very successful first edition, this second edition returns with the most up-to-date industry knowledge. Modeled after the long-running and widely used A Short Course in Photography, a brief text which presents the medium entirely in its most updated form.

Features:

-MyArtsLab: Interact and experience with photographs! MyArtsLab includes practice quizzes, interactive demonstrations of technical concepts enhanced with audio and video, guided tours (CLOSER LOOK FEATURE) of fine art photographs designed to help students improve their composition, an interactive troubleshooting section, and more.

-Getting Started Section: If you are brand new to photography, this section will walk you through the first steps of selecting and loading a memory card, setting the camera’s menu options, focusing sharply, adjusting the exposure, and making your first pictures.

-Projects: These projects are designed to help you develop your technical and expressive skills.

-Making Better Prints: Includes information about how to adjust your photographs with image-editing software, select ink and paper, print them, and then display them in a mat and frame.

-Types of lenses, cameras, lighting, and software are implemented throughout for organizing and archiving photography.

-History of Photography: The medium has been used for documentation, persuasion, and personal expression since its invention in the early 19th century.

Jim Stone is an Associate Professor of Photography at the University of New Mexico. His photographs have been collected by the Museum of Modern Art and The Smithsonian American Art Museum, among many others. Books of his work include Stranger Than Fiction (Light Work, 1993),Historiostomy (Piltdown Press, 2001), and Why My Pictures are Good (Nazraeli Press, 2005).

He has also published six higher education titles that are widely used in university courses: A User¹s Guide to the View Camera, Darkroom Dynamics, Photography, Photography: The Essential Way, A Short Course in Photography, and A Short Course in Digital Photography.

Barbara London has authored and co-authored many photography books from their first editions to their current ones, including Photography, Photography: The Essential Way, A Short Course in Photography, A Short Course in Digital Photography, The Photograph Collector's Guide, and more.

2 Lens 28Lens Focal Length The basic difference between lenses 30 Normal Focal Length The most like human vision 32 Long Focal Length Telephoto lenses 34 Short Focal Length Wide-angle lenses 36 Zoom, Macro, and Fisheye Lenses 38 Focus and Depth of Field 40 Automatic Focus 41 Depth of Field Controlling sharpness in a photograph 42 More about Depth of Field How to preview it 44 Perspective How a photograph shows depth 46 Lens Attachments Close-ups and Filters 48

3 Light and Exposure 50Sensor and Pixels 52 Pixels and Resolution 53 Color in Photography 54 White Balance 55 Using Histograms 56 Exposure Meters What different types do 58 How to calculate and adjust an exposure manually 60 Overriding an Automatic Exposure Camera 62 Making an Exposure of an Average Scene 64 Exposing Scenes that are Lighter or Darker than Average 66 Backlighting 68 Exposing Scenes with High Contrast 69 HDR High dynamic range 70

8 Lighting 128Qualities of Light From direct to diffused 130 Existing Light Use what’s available 132 The Main Light The strongest source of light 134 Fill Light To lighten shadows 136 Simple Portrait Lighting 138 Using ArtificialLight Photolamp or flash 140 More about Flash How to position it 142 Using Flash 144

9 Seeing Like a Camera 146What’s in the Picture The edges or frame 148 The background 150 FocusWhich parts are sharp 152 Time and Motion in a Photograph 154 Depthin a Picture Three dimensions become two 156 Chaos becomes order 157 Photographing for Meaning 158 Portraits Informal: Finding them 160 Formal: Setting them up 162 Photographing the Landscape 164 Photographing the Cityscape 166 Photographing Inside 168 Responding to Photographs 170

10 History of Photography 172Daguerrotype “Designs on silver bright” 174 Calotype Pictures on paper 176 Collodion Wet-Plate Sharp and reproducible 177 Gelatin Emulsion/Roll-FilmBase Photography for everyone 178 Color Photography 179 Early Portraits 180 Early Travel Photography 182 Early Images of War 183 Time and Motion in Early Photographs 184 The Photograph as Document 185 Photography and Social Change 186 Photojournalism 188 Photography as Art in the 19th Century 192 Pictorial Photography and the Photo-Secession 193 The Direct Image in Art 194 The Quest for a New Vision 195 Photography as Art in the 1950s and 1960s 196 Photography as Art in the 1970s and 1980s 198 Digital Photography Predecessors 200 Becomes Mainstream 202How to Learn More 204 Troubleshooting 205 Photographers’ Web Sites 210 Glossary 212 Bibliography 216 Photo Credits 217 Index 218